Comments on: SAP, Salesforce and the Velocity of Changehttp://www.diversity.net.nz/sap-salesforce-and-the-velocity-of-change/2010/12/10/
Thoughts on the Future of Business and User-Centered TechnologyThu, 17 Aug 2017 02:57:28 +0000hourly1By: yojibeehttp://www.diversity.net.nz/sap-salesforce-and-the-velocity-of-change/2010/12/10/comment-page-1/#comment-103804
Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:30:14 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103804@benkepes Well, I am a committer at the ASF, so I will see what I can do 🙂
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Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:29:19 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103803@yojibee Bring back Wave perhaps?
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Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:29:08 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103799@jonerp I’m sensing that 😉
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Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:27:03 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103798@benkepes definitely – with SAP you can be sure there will be a next time!
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Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:26:31 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103802@benkepes Well more than anything I am again faced with the fact that maybe twitter isn’t the best place for having longer discussions 😉
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Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:25:05 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103801@yojibee True – we can’t have long form getting in the way of 140 characters can we? 😉
]]>By: yojibeehttp://www.diversity.net.nz/sap-salesforce-and-the-velocity-of-change/2010/12/10/comment-page-1/#comment-103800
Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:24:38 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103800@benkepes Thanks! Will read it after we finish the discussion here on twitter 😉
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Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:22:40 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103797@jonerp no sweat. sorry I didn’t get a chance to shake your hand on Thursday – next time huh? 🙂
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Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:21:27 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-103796@benkepes cool – working madly on a blog post but will read in detail later..thx…!
]]>By: Ben Kepeshttp://www.diversity.net.nz/sap-salesforce-and-the-velocity-of-change/2010/12/10/comment-page-1/#comment-99976
Sun, 12 Dec 2010 00:02:19 +0000http://diversity.net.nz/?p=4442#comment-99976Dennis – thanks for the comment. To your points…

1) Obviously you’ve spent much more time with SAP than me, however out of all the presentations we had that day, Meyer’s was the only that really felt like it was fresh and vibrant – my perception but not what I would have expected from SAP
2) Re moving to the clouds – you yourself have written about hiking maintenance fees – the fact that cloud software is all-in-one and OpEx not CapEx should provide some incentive – no?
3) Functional advantage – I’m yet to see on-prem with the flexibility that we see on force.com – platform flexibility is a functional differentiator in my view
4) Hmmm – analytics is one area that could be attractive to enterprise as the cost and hassle of data warehousing themselves proves prohibitive. Granted the cloud analytics offerings need to mature signifcantly
5) Functional parity – agreed there is a way to go, but the rate of change from NetSuite, SAP with ByD and Salesforce among others is pretty impressive